El Reg reports:
Apple has gone full swivel-eyed, control-freak crazy on its own employees with a demented internal memo decrying information leaks.
"In 2017, Apple caught 29 leakers. 12 of those were arrested", says the terror missive from Cupertino, ironically leaked to Bloomberg. "Among those were Apple employees, contractors and some partners in Apple's supply chain."
It then threatens long-lasting harm to anyone stupid enough to let anyone know anything about its products before, you know, it launches them and tries to sell as many as humanely possible.
"These people not only lose their jobs, they can face extreme difficulty finding employment elsewhere", the letter rants.
[...] "Leakers do not simply lose their jobs at Apple. In some cases, they face jail time and massive fines for network intrusion and theft of trade secrets both classified as federal crimes."
What a lovely company.
Unless you're the FCC.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by archfeld on Saturday April 14 2018, @11:39PM
I agree. The problem I do find is that the so-called civil dispute involves federal law enforcement arresting the 'alleged' offender for what is clearly a civil contractual issue. Reminds me of the early days of railroad expansion and the Pinker-thugs, or the union busting agents employed by 19th century factory owners.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_busting [wikipedia.org]
For the NSA : Explosives, guns, assassination, conspiracy, primers, detonators, initiators, main charge, nuclear charge